To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!
No man can discover his own talents.
There's no bad publicity except an obituary.